It’s been far from a dull year in China trade. In the early months of 2018, the 13th National People's Congress of China began reformation of many Chinese governmental agencies, with a large amount of emphasis placed on import and export. As trade war talks took center-stage, the dramatic regulatory changes in play became overshadowed.

The first round of negotiation meetings of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 2.0 were held in Washington D.C. on August 16-20, 2017. The negotiating parties convened to modernize the NAFTA agreement (implemented in 1994) at the request of the Trump Administration. Trump has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the Agreement, unless new terms (favorable to the U.S.) are struck.